On the existence of multiple periodic solutions for the \(p\)-Laplacian (Q1777557)

The paper is concerned with the study of a class of \(p\)-Laplacian equations of the form \[ -(| u'| ^{p-2}u')'=\lambda| u| ^{p-2}u+f(t,u)+h(t)\quad\text{a.e. }t\in [0,T], \] \[ u(0)=u(T), \quad u'(0)=u'(T), \quad 1<p<\infty, \] where \(T>0\) and \(f:[0, T] \times \mathbb R \to \mathbb R\) is measurable in \(t\) for every \(x \in \mathbb R\) and continuous in \(x\) for a.e. \(t \in [0,T]\). The author proves that there exists \(\overline{\lambda}>0\) such that for all \(\lambda \in[-\overline{\lambda}, 0)\) the problem has at least three solutions, and for any \(0\leq\lambda<\lambda_1\), the problem has at least one solution under some suitable conditions.